<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>function::bytes_to_string</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SystemTap Tapset Reference Manual"><link rel="up" href="memory_stp.html" title="Chapter 6. Memory Tapset"><link rel="prev" href="API-addr-to-node.html" title="function::addr_to_node"><link rel="next" href="API-mem-page-size.html" title="function::mem_page_size"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>function::bytes_to_string</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-addr-to-node.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 6. Memory Tapset</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="API-mem-page-size.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry" title="function::bytes_to_string"><a name="API-bytes-to-string"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>function::bytes_to_string —
Human readable string for given bytes
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bytes_to_string:string(bytes:long)
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Number of bytes to translate.
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Returns a string representing the number of bytes (up
to 1024 bytes), the number of kilobytes (when less than 1024K)
postfixed by 'K', the number of megabytes (when less than 1024M)
postfixed by 'M' or the number of gigabytes postfixed by 'G'. If
representing K, M or G, and the number is amount is less than 100,
it includes a '.' plus the remainer. The returned string will be 5
characters wide (padding with whitespace at the front) unless
negative or representing more than 9999G bytes.
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